Trail Guide to Northern Colorado: Hiking & Skiing in Fort Collins, Poudre Canyon & North Park [Paperback]

Melodie S. Edwards (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2001

Northern Colorado offers an exhilarating blend of recreational activities and beauty from alpine meadows and wild canyons to hike and bike to dark mossy forests and sage brush meadows to ski. There is plenty of room among the thousands of acres of parks and natural areas in the region of Fort Collins, Poudre Valley, and North Park.

Outside the hustle and bustle of Fort Collins, where 120,000 people reside and Colorado State University is located, there are hundreds of lakes and majestic mountains to explore.

Within a scenic drive of Fort Collins are Poudre Valley and the western town of North Park. North Park's vast grasslands are surrounded on three sides by stunning views of the Medicine Bow, Rabbit Ears, Never Summer, and Park Mountain ranges-terrain to enjoy year-round on your skies and bike. The "moose viewing capitol of the world" is in this area as well, providing plentiful opportunities for people who enjoy watching wildlife.

Trail Guide of Northern Colorado has more than eighty-five trail descriptions. Each description includes a map, a photograph, and detailed information, making this an indispensable reference for those wanting to explore the natural beauty in this region.

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About the Author

Author Melodie Edwards lives in northern Colorado, where she works for the U.S. Forest Service. She enjoys hiking with her dog.

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In researching the urban trails in and around Fort Collins, I went off the beaten path in search of the little wild places and hiding spots of nature in close proximity to the urban world. . . . Aldo Leopold said, "There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot." I hope, hiking and skiing the trails of north central Colorado, you come to realize, as I did, just how you feel on the matter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 249 pages
• Publisher: Pruett Publishing Company (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871089106
• ISBN-13: 978-0871089106
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,783,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for the Northern Front Range hiker., November 6, 2003

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Dan Edwards (Fort Collins, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trail Guide to Northern Colorado: Hiking & Skiing in Fort Collins, Poudre Canyon & North Park (Paperback)

I have hiked several of the trails described in the book and I agree with the author on ratings of the trails. The trail descriptions are well done and give you a very visual idea as to what you will experience on the trail. The directions to trails are pretty straight forward, and the maps are pretty good but a bit simple for my taste. The only real fault I have with the book is that there are no UTM or Latitude, Longitude info for the trailheads. Having this information would have made it easy to pull up my own research for the area. That one annoyance is the only reason I did not give it five stars.